AUBURN, Alabama -- Scot Loeffler has a plan for the next two weeks as Auburn's offensive coordinator. He's going to study the players on hand, and he's going to go find some more.

Loeffler met the media Monday morning, the day after he was hired, then headed out to recruit in a mad dash to Feb. 1's signing day finish line.

His offensive style? "You know what, I like it all," he said.

But he perhaps signaled a change from the hurry-up offense that Gus Malzahn employed at Auburn the last three years. Loeffler said his goal was to "protect that defense" and his duty would be "helping our defense and special teams here at Auburn."

In the immediate future, "we're going to take our personnel and assess exactly where we are the next two weeks."

Loeffler met with the current Tigers on Monday morning. "And I said this to them, the expectation is to win a championship year in and year out."

He said working at Auburn is an "absolute privilege."

Loeffler said the interview process to get the job was the "most intense, detailed interview I've ever been around. The process of the interview was unbelievable."

Coach Gene Chizik said he was not bothered by the long search to name an offensive coordinator because he was busy, first while serving as the defensive coordinator for the Chick-fil-A Bowl, and then searching for a defensive coordinator that ended with Brian VanGorder.

"There were a lot of moving parts," Chizik said.

On Loeffler, he said: "I knew he had the reputation for really developing quarterbacks."

"When your offensive coordinator is the quarterback coach, that's a huge piece of the puzzle. I wanted somebody who could develop a quarterback to get them where we needed him to be to win championships.

"I feel great about bring Scot on board.

"The relationship with his players, not just his quarterbacks, is very important to him."

On the search: "When the smoke cleared, there were only had a handful of people I interviewed, not many at all.

"He was the last one I talked to, and that was by design. It was a very detailed interview."

He said even hiring a coordinator before signing day wasn't a "deal breaker."

"The common sense answer is yes, before signing day. But I was looking for the best thing for Auburn. My most important objective was to get THE right guy for Auburn